I am gratified with the enthusiastic contributions that are being shared in this particular series.  Of course, I didn't expect everyone to agree with everything I wrote! That's why we have AT blogs!

In the next few blogs, I want to provide the background for my reasons for having a series of blogs on the modern interest in the Emergent Church/New Spirituality phenomenon.

Some have been asking for some living examples of New Spirituality principles that we have been discussing for several weeks. And so I turned to Leonard Sweet.

The fundamental question, that one issue, that has separated philosophers and theologians since the beginning of recorded history is epistemology: how we know things, or, how we think we know things.

Let's make it clear: Anything I write here, or anywhere else, is not a personal attack on anyone, whether within or without the Adventist Church. Many of them are personal friends, or will be.  I refuse to let differences of opinions make anyone be my enemy. 

So, how come the "emerging church/emergents" is so attractive to many Adventist leaders,  pastors,  and members! 

In continuing our brief look at the Emerging/Emergent Church tsunami sweeping over many Protestant and Catholic churches, with its emphasis on its particular understanding of "spiritual formation, etc.," we should first separate Spiritualism from New Spiritual

In the last 15 years or so, New Spirituality (or "emerging church, "spiritual formation," etc.) by whatever name its followers choose, has flooded Protestantism, especially Evangelical churches. In the last 5-7 years, the waves have been rolling over many in the Adventist Church. 

I have other topics that would be fun to share but I find it amazing that intellectual hubris never seems to get it!

Some weeks back I suggested that Al Gore' s Olympian efforts in leading the charge that Anthropogenic Global Warning (AGW) was a "settled science" was more hope (follow the money) than fact.  Being a Nobel Laureate may not be enough to settle anything!